Suominen - Innovative solution to support growth strategy with product leadership

The Customer, a global supplier of nonwovens wanted to achieve significant growth through product leadership.

“We have the target to be an innovative and agile game changer in our industry, and we seek to achieve significant growth through product leadership. We want to utilize efficiently our global presence in a harmonized way and strive for excellence in all actions. We had a tight schedule to build a basis for growth and renewal, and Tieto supported us in an excellent way in the planning phase” - Timo Rautakorpi CIO Suominen

The business challenge

Suominen is a global supplier of nonwovens for wiping and medical and hygiene products. They are always looking for ways to grow through their innovative and agile methods to achieve excellence in all their actions. They needed a strategic partner who would be able to support them in building and maintaining their business applications and platform services.

The Tieto solution

Tieto provided Suominen with a full solution that covered new ERPs and MES systems and was based on SAP and TIPS integration solutions. It offered new business capabilities for their information driven supply chain and production excellence. Tieto helped them keep to the growth strategy by supporting them right through the planning stages.

Service features provided

• Integrated paper industry solution based on standard SAP and Tieto own TIPS product family
• Hosted on Tieto cloud
• Offering Suominen with production excellence capabilities including functions for demand management, sales management, centralized planning, production management, reporting and analytics.

Customer business challenge

• The customer wanted to efficiently utilize their global presence in a harmonized way and strive for excellence in all actions. How Tieto helped
• Tieto provided Suominen with a full stack solution, including new ERP and MES systems, based on the standard SAP and TIPS integrated solution.
• Supports hosting from the Tieto cloud
• Enables new business capabilities for information driven supply chain and production excellence, including functions for demand management, sales management, etc. What customer achieved
• Ability to build and maintain business applications and platform services
• Supports in the execution of growth strategy through product leadership

About the customer

• Suominen are global suppliers of nonwovens for wiping, medical, and hygiene products
• Global market leader in nonwovens for wipe
• Employs approximately 600 people in Europe and in the Americas